Stradanje stanovništva NDH u logorima – numeričko određenje
The Plight of the Population of the Independent State of Croatia in camps - A numerical overview

Author(s): Dragan Cvetković
Subject(s): Military history, Government/Political systems, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Independent State of Croatia; demographic losses; civilian victims; the list “Žrtve rata 1941-1945” from 1964; camps; Jasenovac; Gospić-Jadovno-Pag; Zemun-Sajmište; Auschwitz;
Summary/Abstract: This work attempts to show the plight of the civilian population in the territory of the Independent State of Croatia in concentration camps on the basis of the partially revised list “Žrtve rata 1941-1945” (Victims of War, 1941- 1945) first published in 1964. On the basis of results obtained from a revision of the list according to current trends in the analysis of the data, the number of deaths that occurred in the camps is calculated somewhere between 173,800 and 184,800. An overview is made which analyzes the territorial origins of the victims, their year of death, the national structure (58.03% Serbs, 16.09% Jews, 12.83% Roma, 6.97% Croats, 0.95% Muslims, and 5.13% members of other or unknown origins), responsibility for deaths (the perpetrators of crimes – 85.25% Independent State of Croatia, 14.28% Germany, and 0.46% Italy), the sites where the most numerous executions were carried out are identified, and all of this is shown against the larger context of the general suffering that took place in the Independent State of Croatia and Yugoslavia.

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